Table of Contents

• [[related]]
  • [[.]] [[infra]]
  • [[.]] [[offline]]
  • [[.]] [[selfhosted]]
  • [[.]] [[cloud]]
• [[Syncthing]] [[syncthing]]
• [[Dropbox]] [[dropbox]]
• [[Nextcloud]]
• [[MEGA]]
• [[Seafile]]
  • [[try android client]]
• [[misc]]
  • [[spideroak]]
  • [[OneDrive is accessible through third-party scripts]]
  • [[InSync offers unofficial Google Drive Linux support (for a fee)]]

Continuous sync of my data and information is a biggie for me.

• first, I’ve always had one desktop/big sturdy laptop and one small portable for travel/coffee shops/etc
• second, I need to be able to access information on my phone, when I may not have good network (or any)

Eventual sync (e.g. via Git) might be fine for personal wiki.
For todo-list or just random documents, however, I really don’t want to have this overhead of thinking whether I need to do some extra work in order to sync.

related

. [[infra]]

. [[offline]]

. [[selfhosted]]

. [[cloud]]

Syncthing [[syncthing]]

I’m using it at the moment, and it works great.

pros:

• uses filesystem
• opn source, can be selfhosted
• decentralized, no need for ‘main’ device

cons:

• no web interface

on Android: Syncthing-Fork is better than the original Android app.
Some differences:

• "Battery eater" problem is fixed
• UI explains why syncthing is running or not.
• Individual sync conditions can be applied per device and per folder

Dropbox [[dropbox]]

I stopped using it in favor of Syncthing, info might be a bit outdated (circa 2019?). If you don’t want

pros:

• uses filesystem
• has revision history, so you can restore deleted files

cons:

• apparently symlink handling is quite bad… http://www.paulingraham.com/dropbox-and-symlinks.html
  possible solution: do not point to stuff under dropbox directly, instead make a dir like dropbox-links and point there?

on Android: dropsync is nice

Nextcloud

It seems to be more like google services (docs/contacts/maps/etc) rather than just file syncing. Still haven’t tried it myself though.

Nexcloud is a fork of Owncloud (the latter has gone enterprise or something). Apparently it’s much more open source

pros:

• can replace google services #degoogle
  e.g. maps
• open source, can be selfhosted

cons:

• can mount as a filesystem, but it’s not a primary interface
• centralized, requires a ‘main’ server
• ???

MEGA

pros:

• ???

cons:

• symlinks doesn’t work? (or WIP?)
• closed source
• centralized

Seafile

Dind’t end up using it, so in my understanding it’s kinda like Dropbox?

pros:

• open source
• delta sync, headless, dedup, selective encryption

cons:

• not distributed, requires a running server

• https://neowwayyuh.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/seafile-vs-syncthing

try android client

https://github.com/haiwen/seadroid/issues/502
mm, only can access, can’t sync as dropsync or syncthing would :(
use webdav syncer as a workaround? https://github.com/haiwen/seadroid/issues/502#issuecomment-286056463

misc

spideroak

apparently sync is weird, cluncy client
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/84kktv/thoughts_on_spideroak/

OneDrive is accessible through third-party scripts

InSync offers unofficial Google Drive Linux support (for a fee)